I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.Ray Charles

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.Friedrich Nietzsche

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.Isabel Allende

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.Niccolo Machiavelli

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.Marcus Tullius Cicero